Seems a bit redundant when you can just use split windows no?
Give me a second...
Yup. My system still supports multiple things at once.
Perhaps this is for psychopaths that maximize every window?
No one asked for this. AI probably came up with this feature.
I asked for this. I still miss the implementation opera had in the early 2000s.
Exactly. No one. 😉
I use zen
Zen had this feature before and I also really like it
Hundreds of people literally and directly asked for this -- and that's ignoring the votes on posts that were merged as duplicates.
Try doing that on mobile.
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How?! There's no mention of mobile that I've seen for this feature. I also can't find any split options.
On graphene os you just hit the square button to view all your running apps then click their name on the top and click split screen, on Samsung you long press on the apps I think.
I have both Firefox and Firefox focus which is what I used to open two browsers. I almost never use split screen though, the screen is too small for me to be of any use
Well... technically, they're not side by side
Your moves are weak.
Now we're talking
Window management has barely improved in decades in mainstream OSs. We've got snapping in Windows and macOS* but that's only useful if you want your two windows to take up the total screen real estate between them. Others, you're manually adjusting both windows - it's messy and not ideal.
*I've only used headless Linux for a long time, so I don't know what the scene is over there.
What is it with you people.
Everyone crying firefox should stop adding AI features and focus on ui/ux experience.
Firefox adds ui/ux feature
3/4 of the comments complaining that they wont use this specific feature that was added
Do none of you understand the world does not revolve around your use case?
bUt I CaN JuSt opEn ANoThEr windDoW.
Good for you bud.
But I don't want to right now.
How is this any different than just having multiple windows open? Maybe a slight performance savings over running 2 different processes but I can't immagine that amounts to much.
I use this a lot (on Zen browser); It's pretty much the same thing as having two windows, but I find it a lot more practical in general.
Zen is not great about having multiple windows open, which is a non-starter for multi-monitor setups
They did add this bizarre new feature that syncs tabs between windows though. I still can't wrap my head around why someone would want this.
I guess it really depends on how you use the PC. I usually have 7 or more active programs at the same time so I avoid opening extra windows.
Depends on your workflow. I find this feature useful when I have multiple tabs open and need to switch between them, but also need two different sites open side by side. If I switch a lot between the tabs, having two windows open becomes annoying pretty fast as I want my main window to be maximized. This is a non-issue if my second monitor isn't being used for something else, but it often is.
Firefox is already multi-process, so it probably won't change Jack shit in that regard, either. And even when it was single process, it was a process for all open windows.
Mobile won't permit you to have 2 windows of the same app open just because you want that.
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In contrast to the downers, I'll really like this. Dual monitors with a terminal or whatever on one and now I can have two tabs easily visible without much work on the one screen. I'll take it.
Yeah same
I honestly find the FOSS communitybpart of lemmy really exhausting the last couple of months. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING is met with so much hostility.
Completly incapable of seeing any nuance
Quite frankly I find more than half of Lemmy in general has a lot of hostility and very little nuance. Very much agree it's exhausting.
Anyway, glad to find someone else being excited about this feature.
that's because you're a genocidal pos
Edge has had this feature for a while and I love it. I'm glad I can use it on my personal computer and not just my work computer now!
Whoop de doo. Or you could just open two browser windows. 🤷♂️
So they added this feature to desktop, but as far as I can tell not to mobile, where it would be genuinely useful? Especially in the age of folding phones.
Ah: Mozilla strikes again.
I should have assumed they'd do that, given their sabotage of the programming-teams, lately, by gutting them..
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Def can use this while running my dnd games
Finally catching up to Vivaldi.
This is great to see. I used this feature when I had Zen browser installed. What this really solves for me is the pain of using two Firefox windows side-by-side with vertical tabs. Every time I move my cursor from the right window to the left, the tab bar opens and stays open. This would solve that problem. It also saves the small cognitive load required to open another tab and move it into split view on whichever OS I happen to be using in that moment
I've been using it for a month, I really like it. It's a feature I remember fondly of when I used Vivaldi like 8/10 years ago. I hope the released implementation includes an "open in split view" contextual option on links
This is the main reason I've been using Zen browser
"WhYdOnTYoUJuStUsETwoWinDoWd???111one"
Do people really not remember Opera Unite and their Split Tab thingy?
KDE's Konqueror had this, what, 2 decades ago??
Something like that..
I cannot understand why Mozilla has prevented required-features, & obliterated already-implimented required-features ( like the ability to backup one's bookmarks without storing them in Mozilla's "Sync" .. for people who no longer default to trusting Mozilla, like me ), so consistently for so many decades.
Too little too late, to save Mozilla's relevance, especially after they gutted their programming-teams, in the past weeks, from what I'd read ( called-out as intentional sabotage, by others, explicitly ).
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Uhg this shit is so annoying it's hard enough to use a funky mini keyboard as it is I kept trying to move a tab and fucking it would go split screen. CONSENT FUCK EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION FUCK ME IM ASKING TOO MUCH
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